September 14, 2011

We fired up our V-8 caravan and headed south to Janesville, home of an empty GM plant, worker plight, and Paul Ryan. He offered candy to a constituent who really just wanted a job and his legislative help in getting one for himself and the rest of Rock County's unemployed. So, we brought him enough sugar to last he [sic] and his yippy-skippy wife and neighbor the rest of their lives.

You can listen to the audio of the radio broadcast yesterday morning on WTDY. Sly gives out Ryan's home address, giggles about going over to the house to put candy there as a prank, and urges readers to head over there, with candy. He goes into detail about the directions to the house, the number of children who live there, and the physical attractiveness of the Congressman's wife.

My first thought is "turnabout is fair play". If a radio host advocates protests at the home of a politician (or anyone), that host should be prepared for protests at his home. Does this guy have kids? Are his neighbors likely to be impressed with a large protest?

These people from the left never seem to realize their tactics can be turned around on them.

I guess folks who disagree with this tactic now get an Ethical Irony Pass to broadcast Sly's home address hither and yon, along with descriptions of his immediate family members, and exhortations to dump items at his house.

I tend to keep guns like Sixty Grit. And I will not discriminate on who I use them on--I am an equal opportunity home defender. The only time anyone should be discussing candy on my porch is October 31 and maybe Easter. Otherwise stay away.

Garage: it may be that republicans have dark secrets--my opinion of our political class is quite low--if there is some substance to your post, then convince our hostess to publicize it. Until then this post is about a radio personality advocating what may be harassment.

I had some pretty lenient bosses when I was on the air, including one that was completely clueless, but I'm pretty sure, even with our market share, we would have gotten fired over something like this. I was arrested a couple of times, but even those stunts didn't get me fired. This would have.

Unless the station is privately owned and the owner was a dem. I suppose you could get away with it then as you'd be shielded from any fines.

Sly and his radio buddies might want to Netflix The Fisher King, a movie where Jeff Bridges plays a radio shock jock whose on air banter induces a man to kill someone, and his subsequent descent into penury and madness.

You're right, garbage. She should be talking about that crook Walker and his gang of theives! Report her to the Obama Geheimestaats - sorry, I meant the Obama "Attack Watch" at once! Althouse must be reeducated for the greater glory of the Party!

Although, if you're fascinated by what's not being talked about on this blog, let's get a conversation going. What do you think about Gunwalker and Solyndra? Hanging offenses or just lots of PMITA jail time for the administration? Or do you want to just keep shrieking "Look! A bunny!"

The Feds raided the house of a former top aide to Walker this morning.

Garage, in the great scheme of things, who gives a shit?

I mean, really? That's the best you have?

Former top aid to the Governor of Wisconsin versus the moral vacuity of a radio shock jock and his posse giving out the address and family information of a sitting congressman in order to harass him and his family?

""SLY" SYLVESTER: How amateurish is it to have Rebecca Kleefisch, who, I don't know, she has some like little panty business in her basement or something, I don't know. She's hardly a, she's hardly an entrepreneur. You know what? You know how amateurish that is? Cold-calling?

(Using high-pitched voice, speaking as Kleefisch)

'Would you like to move to Wisconsin? Would you like to move CouponCabin to Wisconsin? I'm Rebecca Kleefisch. I performed fellatio on all the talk show hosts in Milwaukee. And they endorsed me and that's how I became lieutenant governor. And then I got colon cancer and I ran around the state to help people. Even though I have government health care, screw everyone else.'

...

CRYSTAL McKENZIE: You know, it looks like she's wearing a wig because I know she's going through chemotherapy right now, so she may be....

SYLVESTER: I don't think that. That is her TV... that's vapid hair.

McKENZIE: (Laughing) OK.

SYLVESTER: That's her vapid hair.

McKENZIE: (Laughing) I'll take your word for it.

...

SYLVESTER: I had heard at one point Rebecca Kleefisch pulled a train, but that must have been a different story I was reading about."

Around here, the imbecilic radio talk show hosts who like to give out phone numbers and addresses are a couple of alleged right-wingers named John and Ken.

They only give out publicly available phone numbers to congressional offices, which are all staffed by secretaries, whose job it is to field phone calls from constituents. NOT home numbers and addresses.

Yeah, you know, the ATF thingy where the US gubmint gave guns to Mexican thugs and criminals, in order to gin up a cause for more gun regs, but they were used to kill US gubmint agents and innocent civilians.

Turnabout's fair play, garbage. You want Althouse to talk about Walker's aide, I want you to talk about Gunwalker and Solyndra. But while we might speculate as to what the feds could be doing in the former case - though we have no evidence - you won't touch the others with a ten-foot pole, because it might dim the halo of your Little Black Jesus, the SCOAMFOTUS.

In any event, you've succeeded in jacking the thread away from the moral leper Sly. If I were Ryan, I'd blast a road of rock salt in the ass of the first jackhole to dump candy in my yard. And then I'd go to the radio station and introduce Mr. Sly's lower colon to the business end of a Louisville Slugger.

But I'm not Ryan. And Ryan is a gentleman who'll shrug this sleazy attack off. More shame to him.

I keep almost watching SOA if for no other reason than the excellent acting ability I know some members of the cast have. I keep NOT doing it because I hate coming into a storyline anywhere but at the beginning.

Nothing sinister in broadcasting a foe's address and the fact there's a pretty woman alone with some little kids.

Seriously. Although if anybody wants to reverse trick or treat at my house, I’ll take chocolate.

One also removed a large banker's box and put it in the truck of a car

Was it full of candy?

Ha!

Maybe you need a hobby. I could care less what liberal Bloggers are or aren’t talking about.

My brother had MSNBC on one day and they started talking about something I’d seen on conservative blogs that was negative towards Obama (solydra maybe?) and I was like “I can’t believe they’re talking about this on MSNBC!” Turns out, he had switched to Fox when I wasn’t paying attention.

Here's a lead on Sly. I see him @ Monty's Blue Plate for lunch fairly regularly, although I've not been there for awhile. He eats a couple burgers, chocolate shake, feeding a hangover. You'll recognize him because he blocks out the sun and he's always looking around hoping someone will notice him. This is the guy who called Condy Rice Aunt Jemima. He is a mamaluke, loser.

Nope. Under congressional seal for the next 89 years. Right after that, though, a couple of guys we knew in another city got in serious trouble for going door to door early in the morning dressed in prisoner coveralls, chained at the wrists and ankles, knocking on doors and asking for a hack saw.

That's the kind of stuff I always loved doing. Nobody in particular is really the target or gets hurt.

You're really that uninformed. No wonder you hold so many stupid beliefs. The CEO of Gibson is a major Republican donor. Martin guitars uses the same wood, supposedly over which Gibson was raided, and weren't raided, but they're a Democratic donor.

Address, please. It's not like I'll be broadcasting it over the airwaves to any psycho who may hear it.

I have no idea what the stalking laws are like in WI, but in CA this shit doesn't fly.

A similar thing happened to a colleague who was CEO of a failing, publicly held dot com. An irate shareholder posted his home address, phone numbers, children's names and schools with Google Sat maps to a couple of financial boards with the entreaty that shareholders should go get him.

Dude got himself arrested rickety-tick. It's big mistake to target kids as many laws kick in automatically when minors are involved.

The radio jock may have free speech protections, until someone gets hurt, but the useful idiots who show up at Ryan's house do not.

No because it is becoming apparent that the Obama administration put pressure on OMB to approve the loan guarantee before they did their due diligence, so Biden could make his little speech. There's no way Obama can put the brakes on anything now.

I had the misfortune of visiting this Sly's website. Reduced to calling everyone who disagrees with their ideology "racists". One wonders how Sly will squeal(?!?) if what he advocates is done to him. But its so hard to be a classless jerk!

Getting back to the Professor's post, my own feeling is that it's very hard for me to feel any sympathy for the UAW workers at the empty Janesville CM plant if they're going to accept the antics of Sly on their supposed behalf. If anyone from the UAW wants to repudiate Sly's antics, I might feel more charitable.

You goota be kidding. There's no equivocal comparison between Gibson and Solyndra.

Obama gave Solyndra over a half a billion dollars of taxpayer money in cronyism at its best. Solyndra squandered it and went bankrupt, which means they had to file papers in Federal bankruptcy court. Which in turn means all sorts of other stuff happens and the Feds will investigate, since the money came from the Feds to begin with.

Solyndra isn't a raid justified using the slimmest legal definition of a "crime," it's Obama caught with his pants down and Federal agencies carrying out their required activities.

Only and idiot or a slime wanting to justify thuggism would try to equivocate the two. And, I'm certainly more informed than you think I am.

Solyndra would be typical political blunder which would blow over. But for one thing. The due diligence thing. It appears there was little and that it was rushed for the Biden speech. Problem. This calls our attention to the due diligence itself which was skimpy to non existent. An accounting student could have put the brakes on this deal since the accounting firm was all but giving "going concern" flags for the firm. This deal stinks

So, we brought him enough sugar to last he [sic] and his yippy-skippy wife and neighbor the rest of their lives.

I have observed that people who think that the nominative case applies when the objective is called for are usually poorly-educated, arrogant liberals trying to sound erudite. I have no random samples upon which to base a formal study, but the anecdotal data is mounting.

:The truth is that Paul Ryan has no interest in fighting for working families — in Janesville or anywhere else in the United States.

In 2008, the sprawling General Motors plant that had been Janesville's top employer for nine decades was shuttered. Thousands of jobs were lost. Unemployment soared. Working families in Janesville and surrounding Rock County are still struggling.'

Huh. So they want him to introduce legislation to mandate right to work laws, and relief from over reaching legacy contracts? I find that hard to believe. But if he did all this, they wouldn't be broadcasting his address and phone number?

I believe Sly and his apologists want us to think leaving candy on the doorstep is funny the same way glitter bombing is supposed to be an OK stunt. In fact, leaving the candy and making pointed comments about family members is code for "we know where you live and where your kids go, sucker."